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While the media is going viral over the logical conclusion that Ms. Johansson should not continue as an official global ambassador for the charity Oxfam, the Official Twitter for Apartheid Israel has already claimed her as the face of Israel.

Two of Israel’s Embassies have resorted to using Neil’s Young’s planned concert in the apartheid state to musicwash its tarnished image. Here are two screenshots of Israel’s Canadian Embassy Twitter and also the Israel Embassy in Washington DC. An open letter has already been circulated, asking the champion defender of indigenous people’s rights in Canada, to cancel his gig and boycott Israel. His show is already set for Hayarkon Park, Tel Aviv, Israel, on July 17, 2014 in a show entitled “The Past, the Present and The Future with Neil Young and Crazy Horse.”

Truly, Young’s efforts to protect first nation people’s land would ring hollow if he chooses to play in violation of the boycott call by millions of Palestinians.

On December 18 and 19 DJ Hardwell plans to return to Israel. The Dutch musician’s choice to play Israel comes alongside the choice by Dutch water supplier Vitens to end a partnership with Israeli water company Mekorot due to the “political context.”

In a statement, Vitens said it had come to the conclusion that it was “extremely hard” to work with Mekorot on future projects “because they cannot be taken out of the political context.”

Turkish singer Sabahat Akkiraz performing folk and Sufi music (here in a Palestinian keffiyeh) is being asked to cancel her gig in apartheid Israel.

Calling it “Tourist tip #358 / International Oud Festival 2013” the Israeli English language paper “Haaretz,” ignores the historical reality of the Oud. This musical instrument is part of Palestinian culture and often played by Palestinian people on the land that Israel illegally occupies. Instead, Haaretz claims “The oud goes back into the dim reaches of history.”

Then, the article appropriates the music of two Greek and Turkish artists, in order to normalize Israeli apartheid, colonialism, and racial segregation.

This year features two Israeli premieres, as the festival programs tells us, the Katerina Papadopoulou Ensemble with traditional Greek music, and the popular Turkish singer Sabahat Akkiraz performing Turkish folk and Sufi music. The festival also features the Israeli artists Yair Dalal, Amos Hoffman, Haya Samir and others. – Haaretz

With the boycott of Israel growing by musicians who are anti-apartheid, it becomes hard for Israel to lure artists. Tom Jones may not be aware of the boycott but soon he will be, as a concerted human rights campaign (see https://www.facebook.com/Tom.Jones.NotUnusual.Boycott.Apartheid) is calling on him to cancel his concert.

Palestinian art depicting the horror of the 1948 Nakba.

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Israel commits crime of apartheid: "Inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime."